Devin Nunes: Obama ambassadors went 'wild' with unmasking

A declassified list of U.S. officials who received information in response to "unmasking" requests has given allies of President Trump fresh ammunition to question the actions of Obama-era ambassadors. Rep. Devin Nunes, the top Republican on the House Intelligence Committee, said the National Security Agency memo, which focused on spy intercepts of conversations then-incoming national security adviser Michael Flynn had with foreigners from the 2016 election to Trump's inauguration, is "just the tip of the iceberg." "A lot of them went wild after Trump won. They got poisoned with this Russia hoax," Nunes told Fox News on Wednesday, referring to the previous administration. "That's why you had Obama ambassadors across the globe unmasking — all of them were just unmasking and then leaking out about anyone within the Trump campaign and the Trump transition that they could." This is a controversy that emerged in the public eye back in the spring of 2017, when Nunes was the chairman of the House Intelligence Committee. The congressman announced that he reviewed "dozens of reports" from the U.S. Intelligence Community about the incidental intelligence collection of communications involving Trump team members and informed the president about what he learned. The California Republican raised concerns about this information being too widely disseminated across the government, even as he stated that he believed the surveillance was legal and stressed it had nothing to do with Russian election interference. Still, Democrats quickly decried Nunes's actions as a political cover for Trump, who weeks earlier had accused Obama of wiretapping Trump Tower. The House Intelligence Committee's top Democrat, Adam Schiff, said Nunes's actions cast "great doubt" on his ability to conduct an independent investigation into Russian election meddling and potential ties between the Trump campaign and the Kremlin.

Nunes agreed to step aside from the panel's investigation after facing allegations of mishandling classified information. The matter was scrutinized by the House Ethics Committee, which cleared the congressman of wrongdoing in December 2017. To this day, Nunes faults the majority of the media for seizing on Russia-related leaks of classified information, including about Flynn, after they went "crazy" because Hillary Clinton lost the election. The memo released this week showed 16 authorized individuals, who were not specified, made requests on behalf of dozens of officials from Nov. 8, 2016, to the end of January 2017 to reveal what turned out to be Flynn's identity in intelligence reports about conversations he had with foreigners. The names of those foreign persons or details of those conversations were not disclosed. Samantha Power, Obama’s ambassador to the United Nations, has long been a focus of the “unmasking” saga. Nunes sent a letter to then-Director of National Intelligence Dan Coats in 2017, telling him the committee found that “one official [Samantha Power], whose position had no apparent intelligence-related function, made hundreds of unmasking requests during the final year of the Obama administration.” Sources told Fox News the number exceeded 260 in 2016.

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/devin-nunes-obama-ambassadors-went-wild-with-unmasking

BILLIONAIRE Branson Forced To Sell Space Flight Shares – Virgin ‘On Brink Of Collapse’

AFTER experiencing a fierce public backlash over his demands that his businesses be bailed-out by the British taxpayer, Richard Branson has finally relented and announced that he will sell his stake in Virgin Galactic in an effort to bankroll the firms himself. Sir Richard Branson is selling a stake in Virgin Galactic to raise $500m to prop up his other businesses including Virgin Atlantic. The billionaire hopes that the sale of a share in his space exploration business will provide a much needed cash injection of $500m – although financial experts have claimed that this might still not be enough to save Virgin from going bust.

Last month, Virgin’s Australian airline – the second-largest carrier in the country – entered administration following the widespread travel bans imposed in response to the Coronavirus pandemic. The company had already been struggling with a long-term debt estimated at just over two-and-a-half million pounds. The airline is now seeking new buyers and investors – after the Australian government joined Britain in refusing to spend taxpayer’s cash on a billionaire’s venture. Shares had been suspended in the firm for over a fortnight as it struggled to devise a survival plan.

In April, Sir Richard – who owns 51% of Virgin Atlantic – offered to put his luxury Necker Island resort up as collateral to secure a UK government loan, believed to be around £500m. Yet Chancellor Rishi Sunak stood by his earlier statement that airlines should find their own sources of alternative funding, and that the government would only step in as “a last resort” during the coronavirus crisis. Last week, Virgin Atlantic announced that it would be cutting more than 3,000 jobs and ending its operation at Gatwick. Branson’s last hopes could well rest on the share sale of Virgin Galactic, with the Virgin Group officially saying that it will use the proceeds to support its “leisure, holiday and travel businesses” hit by the “unprecedented impact” of Covid-19.

https://www.politicalite.com/business/billionaire-branson-forced-to-sell-space-flight-shares-virgin-on-brink-of-collapse/

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WORLD EXCLUSIVE: Mark Dougan Leaks Epstein Blackmail Sex Tape with Underage Girl

KIRBY Sommers, who leads a group supporting the victims of Jeffrey Epstein has issued an update to the Petition to New York Academy of Art on behalf of Epstein victim Maria Farmer after a sex tape was leaked that allegedly shows one of Epstein’s underage girls having sex with a man alleged to be mainsteam media mogul Steve Burke.

Ms. Sommers slamed the NYAA following the newly released video showing one of Epstein’s underage girls having sex with a man alleged to be mainsteam media mogul Steve Burke.

https://www.politicalite.com/…/world-exclusive-mark-dougan…/

>>9206851

Sauce:

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>>9206853

Agreed, the thing that doesn't make sense to me in this, is that Samantha Powers maintains she didn't do hundreds of unmasking..I can't shake the feeling..that her ID was used by someone else. We can see from the transcripts that the truth was told under oath, and I can't see why Powers would lie knowing that the answers she gave the truth was already known. Also surprising to me was the noticeable absence of Susan Rice not doing any unmasking herself, if for no other reason than at the direction of Obama.

>>9206903

Do you have the drop # for that?